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Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston have shown that using bar-code technology to augment the counting of surgical sponges during an operative procedure increases the detection rate of miscounted and/or misplaced sponges. Their research is published in the April 2008 issue of the Annals of Surgery.1
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Baylor Healthcare System, based in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas, has been named the recipient of this year's National Quality Healthcare Award by the National Quality Forum (NQF).
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Although they've been around for a while, personal health records, or PHRs, have been grabbing bigger headlines recently with the launch of Google Health, bringing the two largest brands on the Internet (Microsoft already had launched its HealthVault product) squarely into the health care arena.
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Doxorubicin-based chemotherapy has remained a standard for the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma for decades. Recently, combination gemcitabine and docetaxel demonstrated significant clinical activity in a single-institution mixed population study of women with uterine leiomyosarcoma.
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In This Issue: Baxter Bioscience has developed a whole-virus, two dose vaccine against avian flu; warning label now on antipsychotics regarding an increased risk of mortality in elderly patients treated for dementia-related psychosis; vitamin D for men with heart disease on horizon? A new oral anticoagulant may soon be available for prevention of thrombotic complications of hip or knee surgery; FDA Actions
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The two main modifiers of pathogenesis are age and sex. Reversible and irreversible modifications to cellular machinery through genetic and epigenetic mechanisms begin with embryogenesis. For instance, certain aspects of in vitro culture conditions "imprint" genetically normal embryos by altering methylation patterns and gene expression.
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Berg and colleagues from 21 centers in the U.S. report the results of a prospective, multicenter, randomized trial designed to validate the performance of screening ultrasound in conjunction with mammography in women with dense breasts and at high risk for breast cancer.